An unbiased employer engages in optimal sequential search by drawing from two equally quali…ed subpopulations of job candidates who di¤er in their “discourse systems.” That is, minorities convey noisier unbiased signals of ability than non-minorities. We show that when the employer is selective, minorities are underrepresented in the workforce, …red at greater rates, and underrepresented among ...

Background: As suggested by the Minorities’ Diminished Returns (MDRs) theory, educational attainment shows a weaker protective effect for racial and ethnic minority groups compared to non-Hispanic Whites. This pattern, however, is never shown for hospitalization risk. Objectives: This cross-sectional study explored racial and ethnic variations in the asso...

Alternative spaces of learning in east London: opportunities and challenges Raymonde Sneddon and Peter Martin Introduction London, and east London particularly, has been an important site for immigration over the centuries. Prior to the Second World War the major immigrants into the city were Irish, and Polish and Russian Jews (Fishman, 1997; Block, 2005). In the period following the Second Wor...

Ethnic and racial disparities in mental health are driven by social factors such as housing, education, and income. Many of these social factors are different for minorities than they are for whites. Policies that address gaps in these social factors therefore can address mental health status disparities. We analyze three policies and their impact on minorities: the Individuals with Disability ...

Two studies investigated the implications of ethnic minorities' prejudice expectations for their affective and behavioral outcomes during interethnic interactions. In both studies, the more ethnic minorities expected Whites to be prejudiced, the more negative experiences they had during interethnic interactions. This finding held true for chronic prejudice expectations in a diary study of colle...

This Lecture begins with a puzzle about Albert Hirschman’s famous work, Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Why do we make much of exit and voice but utterly neglect loyalty? It’s a question that goes well beyond Hirschman’s book. For example, much of constitutional theory is preoccupied with a single question: What does a democracy owe its minorities? And most of the answers to this question fit natural...

The article is devoted to the analysis of personal names representatives Polish community Khmelnytskyi from point view their compliance with norms contemporary Ukrainian literary language. considers main types linguistic deviations in records Ukraine at beginning 21st century sociolinguistic perspective. Linguistic anthroponymy are caused by several reasons, which Ukrainian-Russian bilingualism...

BACKGROUND Declining age at menarche has been observed in many countries. In China, a decrease of 4.5 months per decade in the average age at menarche among the majority Han girls has recently been reported. However, the trends in age at menarche among ethnic minority girls over the past 25 years remain unknown. OBJECTIVES To compare the differences in median age at menarche among girls aged ...

We describe our experience in developing a discourse-annotated corpus for community-wide use. Working in the framework of Rhetorical Structure Theory, we were able to create a large annotated resource with very high consistency, using a well-defined methodology and protocol. This resource is made publicly available through the Linguistic Data Consortium to enable researchers to develop empirica...